8 LOCAL BENEFITS. 



was meant figuratively but indignantly 

 denied the inference. He took pains to 

 instruct me as to the nature and compo- 

 nent parts of the constituency of Lynn 

 Regis, and gave good reasons for their 

 selection of men of considerable influence 

 with the Government and in Parliament, 

 for their representatives ; among which 

 might be reckoned the drainage of the 

 Fens, and the improvement of the naviga- 

 tion and the port of Lynn. When I was 

 informed of the number of Acts relative 

 to those important objects that had been, 

 and would be yet, in the House, I could 

 but acknowledge my fallacious and ill- 

 drawn conclusions, and contrasted them 

 with his sound judgment and superior un- 

 derstanding. 



Indeed, he was an excellent specimen 

 of that most respectable class, the mer- 

 chants and bankers of the country. He 

 was a man of great penetration and 

 quick discernment his intercourse with 



